Durga Prasad Dhar

Durga Prasad Dhar (24 April 1918-6 December 1975) was the Indian ambassador to the Soviet Union from 1969 to 1971.

Biography
Durga Prasad Dhar was born on 24 April 1918 in Kashmir, British India to a Hindu Kashmiri family. He earned a bacherlors degree from the University of Punjab and became a member of the Jammu and Kashmir State Constituent Assembly from 1951 to 1957 and became a member of the state assembly until 1967. From 1969 to 1971 he was the ambassador of India to the Soviet Union and made a treaty of friendship between India and Bangladesh and became close friends with Indira Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru's family. The D.P. Dhar Hall at the Indian Embassy in Moscow was named for him.